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This film, by Joan Radha Bridges, is about Muktananda. He appointed two co-successors, Nityanananda and Gurumayi Chidvalas, his niece.
When persons who suffered try to describe the harm they incurred, and speak up so as to make amends by warning prospective recruits about the history of SY, all too often the people who experienced only the bliss, show up and give various arguments along the line of 'I only experienced bliss. What you report is irrelevant and your negativity. God bless this great path.'
A library of material is available on the Ross Institute archives.
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After a nasty battle, Gurumayi took control and purged the history of SYDA yoga to eliminate all refererences to Nitya. Pictures of him and documents referring to him were destroyed.
In addition to the long hours of work and chanting, described by Joan Bridges, Muktananda was friends with Werner Erhard and two different sources alledge that techniques from EST tech were incorporated into the Siddha Yoga intensives led by Muk. It is to be hoped that her film will mention this.
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This has received little attention, even from former devotees.
What worries me is that so very many gurus (both western born and Asian born) continue to show up, claiming enlightenment.
No one bothers to wonder whether they could have learned some potent 'tech' and are concealing it behind Sanskrit chanting and twaddle about nonduality or kundalini.
Worst of all, the bias against 'negative thinking' in the New Age scene gives these people easy access.
And when any attempt is made to discuss this, bang, along come guru apologists who claim the guru isnt the problem, its our own craving minds that are the problem.
After a nasty battle, Gurumayi took control and purged the history of SYDA yoga to eliminate all refererences to Nitya. Pictures of him and documents referring to him were destroyed.
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www.shadowoftheguru.com]
What Joan R Bridges does not know was that in addition to the long hours of work and chanting, her guru was friends with Werner Erhard and two different sources alledge that techniques from EST tech were incorporated into the Siddha Yoga intensives led by Muk.
Re: So-Called Ancient Hindu spirituality concealing American LGAT 'tech'
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forum.culteducation.com]
American Tantric Dissimulation
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forum.culteducation.com]
This has received little attention, even from former devotees.
What worries me is that so very many gurus (both western born and Asian born) continue to show up, claiming enlightenment.
No one bothers to wonder whether they could have learned some potent 'tech' and are concealing it behind Sanskrit chanting and twaddle about nonduality or kundalini.
Worst of all, the bias against 'negative thinking' in the New Age scene gives these people easy access.
A note on guru apologists.
When any attempt is made to discuss this, bang, along come guru apologists who claim the guru isnt the problem, its our own craving minds that are the problem.
It may be that one unspoken motive for the persons for whom guru apologism is a vocation, is that the high point of their lives, the one time they had prestige and became 'insta-Brahmins', was in the good old ashram days when they were inner circlers. Or were prize recruits who made their guru look good and, as a result ranked high in the organization.
Only in a court presided over by a pseudospiritual guru who behaved as a Mafioso did such persons ever feel fulfilled--they became insta Brahmins only in relation to the artificial environment that only an infallible and all powerful guru can create, but is otherwise not available in most parts of the US.
So perhaps for that reason, they defend gurus.
In an open and democratic society, there isnt the same sense of becoming, or hoping to become, an insta-Brahmin.
And most guru converts fail to recognize that unless they are rich, or have a prestigious social background of some sort that brings social connections useful to an ambitious guru, the odds are against their becoming and then remaining 'insta-Brahmins'.
The caste system, whether its ugly and authentic form in India, or the equally ugly fake version in guru ashrams is a pyramid.
There are just a few slots open for Brahmins. There are a few more for thugs (excuse me Khstriyas--the bullies (male or female) who do the guru's dirty work.
There are a few extra slots for the money people--the merchants and accountants.
But, most of the slots are for the sudras..the peons who chop wood, cook the food, make the beds, do the laundry.
And a few spots for the necessary scapegoats (dalits, outcastes) onto whom the perfect guru's shadow material is projected.
Very few ever understand that when love bombed to join a guru, odds are they will be the peons.
And if they become insta-Brahmins, odds are at some point, they risk returning to the state of peonhood or become the outcastes when they fail to please the guru.